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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver accuse the American military of doing to Iraq in 1991?
(a) Destroying the water system.
(b) Selling its debt.
(c) Crippling its nuclear programs.
(d) Massacring its people.

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver expect would take her away from the band?
(a) Journalism assignments.
(b) Illness.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Book tour.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the worst thing about book tour?
(a) The small crowds.
(b) Missing her daughter.
(c) The constant travel.
(d) The fake questions.

4. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say the people are kept in the dark about wars?
(a) To protect them from hard truths.
(b) To protect their support for it.
(c) To insulate politicians from criticism.
(d) To preserve the illusion of prosperity and peace.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say is the consequence of watching violent films?
(a) Acting out violently.
(b) Understanding the consequences of violence.
(c) Understanding the roots of violence.
(d) Protecting against violence.

6. What did Barbara Kingsolver want her daughter to learn at the Heard Museum?
(a) To appreciate Native Americans' culture.
(b) To respect the mysteries of life and death.
(c) To see from outside of her own culture.
(d) To pay attention to art work.

7. What drew Barbara Kingsolver and her second husband together?
(a) Political activism.
(b) She got pregnant.
(c) Love of nature.
(d) He was her editor.

8. When were the Titan Missiles outside of Tucson taken out of service?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1977.

9. What is Haleakala?
(a) A road.
(b) A beach.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A volcano.

10. What did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter make at the Museum?
(a) Rugs.
(b) Twig animals.
(c) Bone whistles.
(d) Dolls.

11. Which of these things did Barbara Kingsolver NOT remember when she took Camille to visit her childhood home?
(a) Catching birds build nests.
(b) Collecting leaves to press.
(c) Catching crawfish.
(d) Putting on plays.

12. What question did Barbara Kingsolver dislike having to answer?
(a) What are you working on now?
(b) What is your book about?
(c) How do you support yourself?
(d) How do you survive having been divorced?

13. What was unique about Haleakala?
(a) The volcano created its own climate.
(b) The restaurant served fish that only lived in the lake in that volcano.
(c) The road was extremely windy.
(d) The beach had pink sand.

14. What instrument did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter play at the Museum?
(a) Piano.
(b) Pan pipes.
(c) Drums.
(d) Clarinet.

15. What crop crowded out native plants in the environment Barbara Kingsolver visited?
(a) Sugar cane.
(b) Corn.
(c) Eucalyptus.
(d) Potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Heard Museum a center for?

2. What were Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about being a 'rock star'?

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver grow up expecting?

4. Who is Steve?

5. What is in stone soup?

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